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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: What is the best motherboard of 2021? The lack of GPUs makes system building tricky, but there are still some great motherboards out there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. If you’ve ever pieced together your own gaming PC, then you’ll know how important a quality motherboard is. While you can often get by with a basic board, and in fact for a budget gaming machine that makes sense, when it comes to mid-range and high-end builds, spending a bit more here can make a big difference....

Riot settles gender discrimination lawsuit for $100 million The 2018 lawsuit has come to a conclusion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. League of Legends and Valorant developerRiot Gameshas settled its gender discrimination class-action lawsuit with California state agencies for a total of $100 million. TheLeague of Legendspublisher will pay $80 million to members of the class-action suit, while $20 million will go to the plaintiffs' legal fees....

This is what happened in PC gaming hardware in 2021 Was 2021 a good year for PC hardware? Let’s take a look through a year’s worth of drama, releases, and developments. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Has 2021 been a good year for PC gaming? Yes and no. Mostly no, at least for those of us gaming on an older graphics card in dire need of an update....

Trials of Fire is the most intricately layered strategy game of 2021 A roguelike deck-builder like no other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In addition to our mainGame of the Year Awards 2021, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new staff picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month....

Welcome to your new PC gaming obsession: artisan keycaps Take your PC aesthetic to the next level. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. If you aren’t already a convert to the wonderful world of artisan keycaps, I promise you will be. There’s nothing PC gamers love more than personalising their setups—except maybe one-shotting me in Hunt: Showdown—and honing in on a particular piece of hardware or peripheral to see how it could be made your own is as much a part of the hobby for many as playing games....

2021 showed there’s a fine line between remaster and disaster Reflections on one of 2021’s biggest trends, with insights from Nightdive Studios When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Your phone pings. A new trailer just dropped on YouTube, and with a quick flash of a logo, it teases a forthcoming remaster of one of your old favourites, Hurt The Bad Men II....

2021’s biggest game launches and why people were mad about them The things that annoyed PC gamers the most in 2021. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. What pisses off PC gamers changes year to year. If you’d run a poll in 2017, loot boxes probably would’ve been the biggest gripe. Fury over Epic Games Store exclusives dominated 2019’s discourse....